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The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is inviting applications for funding to support excellent investigator-led research across the breadth of its scientific remit. Â Applicants are encouraged to consider the relevance of the proposed work in line with the long-term research and innovation priorities set out in BBSRCâs strategic …
Closing date: 20 Jan 2026 16:00 UK The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is inviting applications for funding to purchase mid-range equipment for research in areas across its scientific remit through ALERT 2025. The funding is intended to provide: equipment that will be widely used and underpins capability …
Closing date: 14 Jan 2026 16:00 UK The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is inviting applications for funding to support excellent new investigator-led research across the breadth of its scientific remit. This scheme is designed primarily to assist newly employed university lecturers, researchers (at a level equivalent to …
Registration deadline (stage 1): 19 Nov 2025 16:00 UK BBSRCâs Pioneer Awards provide funding to pursue early-stage bioscience discovery research. Applications should open novel adventurous research avenues with the potential to transform the fundamental understanding of living systems. Projects must: be early-stage fundamental bioscience lacking preliminary data explore visionary and …
The Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellowships are intended to assist senior researchers who have retired or partially retired from an academic post to complete a research project and prepare the results for publication The primary aim of the scheme is to support the facilitation, integration or completion of the applicantâs own …
The Leverhulme Trust‘s Visiting Professorship scheme is for UK institutions to invite an eminent senior professor from overseas, to bring genuinely novel expertise and enhance the skills and knowledge of academic staff and students in an underrepresented area in the UK. Priority will be given to new or recent collaborations …
The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 awards a total of around 35 postgraduate Fellowships and Scholarships a year, for advanced study and research in science, engineering, the built environment and design. It also makes a small number of Special Awards to support projects aligned with its overall goals. …
Closing date: 26 Feb 2026 The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is inviting outline applications for funding to support innovative, large-scale and complex projects that tackle big environmental science questions and have the potential to produce world-leading research. Multi and interdisciplinary research delivered by collaborative teams is welcomed, as long …
Closing date: 11 Dec 2025 The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is calling for proposals to phase one of its programme on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science. NERC is seeking bold, ambitious projects that accelerate the development of leading-edge data science tools and AI to help deliver transformative solutions to …
Submission deadline: 13 Nov 2025 The Horizon Europe Partnership Water4All has launched its next call for proposals under the theme âWater and Healthâ. UK participants are welcome. The call aims to support research and innovation projects addressing key challenges related to the link between water and human health, including water …
Round 2 and 3 closing dates: 25 Nov 2025, 25 Feb 2026 The Royal Society‘s Faraday Discovery Fellowships are prestigious long-term awards that support the most talented research leaders to undertake high-quality, original research. The Accelerated International Route, established in 2025, is intended for outstanding international researchers nominated by their UK …
The Royal Society‘s Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship aims seeks to provide opportunities for experienced senior and mid-career researchers to focus on full-time research for up to one year, by relieving them of all teaching, administrative and pastoral care duties during that period. Preference will be given to candidates who, …
Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowships are open to experienced researchers, particularly those who are or have been prevented by routine duties from completing a programme of original research. Priority will be given to applicants whose teaching and administrative duties have significantly impacted their ability to undertake research in the three years …
The Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (DHF) programme aims to support outstanding early career scientists who require a flexible working pattern due to personal circumstances, such as caring responsibilities and/or health-related conditions. The programme aims to enable the next generation of research leaders to: Build an independent research career at a UK …
Deadline: 23 Oct 2025 This scheme is part of the Royal Society’s Industry programme, and facilitates short dynamic engagements between scientists employed in industry or academia (including postdoctoral researchers), enabling the parties to collaborate on a mutually beneficial project. Awards can be held full time for 3-6 months, or 50% …
